Watchtower stories on Tacoma utility records, private ownership, ratepayer exposure, public audits, and the public ledger voters can inspect.
This is the general defense-oversight ledger, separate from the Defense Money Record story. Public FEC and Congressional Record data can help voters understand how defense oversight, local aerospace jobs, and campaign finance intersect. Watchtower presents th...
Your power bill went up approximately 30 percent over the last three years. Public records show a major Washington utility is owned through an international pension-fund consortium collecting regulated returns from ratepayers. Watchtower limits causation clai...
Crystal Pointe Estates is a 151-home manufactured housing community in Spanaway. Pierce County has 1,295 manufactured housing lots. On January 9, 2026, Representative Strickland voted yes on H.R. 5184, which Congress.gov describes as rescinding the Department...
Pierce County's kidney cancer rate is 19 percent above the Washington state average. PFAS, the forever chemicals tied to firefighting foam, remain a documented cleanup issue around Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Representative Strickland toured cleanup sites in 20...
Tacoma's Prairie Robotics pilot puts smart cameras on municipal trucks to flag recycling contamination. The public question is what gets recorded, how households are identified, and whether a grant-funded experiment becomes a utility-bill cost.
Washington ratepayers deserve a plain public record showing who owns essential utility infrastructure, how regulated returns work, which rate cases raised bills, and what federal oversight gap remains after Congress repealed the old utility holding-company gu...